by Included on The Times‘ list of best coastal walks are two in Cumbria – one is a visit to Hodbarrow Point near Millom, where I’d been in 2008 (and must revisit on a better day). The second is the walk from Whitehaven to St Bees.
As it was forecast to be a slightly showery day with low cloud and quite breezy, a low level walk was in order, and this seemed a good objective; as I’d previously walked south along the coast from Harrington to Whitehaven, it linked up nicely too.
I parked the car on the sea front car park at St Bees, and after a battle with the ticket machine, Brindley and I walked to the railway station to catch the 0900 north to Whitehaven.
